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Norplant Edits:

Normally removal is not complicated, however in the beginning of its facilitation doctors were not trained in removal procedures, which proved to cause further complications later on[7]

Although effective in regards to preventing pregnancy, in countries such as Indonesia, those currently taking Norplant are the only ones to receive their paycheck on time. It has also been reported in Indonesia that women have been threatened at gunpoint in order to accept the removal Norplant, in order to control population growth. [18]

It should also be noted that Norplant had desired targets for population control including African American women, as well as teens. At first the device was marketed specifically to poor women, in which the legislative members offered an incentive of $500, along with an additional $50 dollars supplied to the women each additional year the device remained inserted. Due to the fact that society most often links welfare recipients to the black race, the black population in turn became the target; blacks are also five times more likely to live in poverty, furthering the likelyhood that they would be supplied the device. The teen population was also greatly affected with the invention of Norplant. Unfortunately black birthrates to teen mothers are more than double compared to whites, further linking the black race to this form of population control. Although the intention was to decrease teen birth rates, Norplant does not protect against STDs. Norplant indirectly offered an incentive to have more sex, for they were offered protection against pregnancy, but this greatly increased the odds of contracting an STD.

The Victorian Economy (reference: Sally Shuttleworth)

During the Victorian era, the economy was seen as something stable, and controlled by man. However, if disrupted it would have catastrophic effects on society, similar to today's economy. Due to the economy's high variability, it was often compared a women's menstrual cycle and vice versa. The ideologue of the time, Herbet Spencer, describes the economic system as a "magnificent landscape trenched with dark drains", meaning that as a whole the economy is rather beautiful and structured, but needs to be controlled in order to avoid complication. In relation to the woman's body, the money of the economy was directly related to the blood within the body. At the time a woman's menstrual cycle was also seen as something that needed to be controlled, often mentally. The woman's body, however, was not reflected in a positive light, described as "the sewer of all the excrements existing in the body". If the cycle's flow was obstructed, it was believed that the woman would be led to insanity, and thus the medical industry grew in order to solve these problems.

Sex (edit)

It should be noted however, that in modern society, sex is a lot more malleable than one thought. There are members of society who are born with two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome, who are often designated as intersxuals. That being said, the biology is no longer the sole determinant factor of the proper sex.

Often when surgeries were performed to correct the genitals, the correction was not in fact what was desired for the patient later on in life. It has been suggested by some scholars that in order to avoid the confusion of the patients, there should not be this strong sense of trying to designate a specific sex of either male or female at birth; society often has this notion that what lies out the basic gender model is wrong, and thus should be fixed immediately. Biologist, Anne Fausto Sterling, believes it would be more beneficial to let the child grown up and decide what he or she feels natural to them.